Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...measure of great literature is its capacity to serve as a mirror, allowing each interpreter to see his own concerns reflected. By that standard, Rumanian Director Lucian Pintilie's vision of Tartuffe-a portrait of an absurdist, spy-flecked totalitarian state-is not only legitimate but a tribute to the hardihood of Moliere's 17th century satire of conformity and misplaced religious fervor. Pintilie's production at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis will not please purists: it is manic rather than mannered, it looks abstract and austere rather than luxuriously "in period," and it ingeniously takes liberties...
...hulks of the infield tossed their anchors and made their muscles, but rather obviously missed the boycotters. Nobody can handle a ball and chain quite like a totalitarian. It did not spoil his mood too much when opening-day Flagman Ed Burke missed the finals in the hammer throw. "Just because I didn't advance doesn't mean I didn't enjoy it," he said. Should some young U.S. hammer throwers be inspired, he will be pleased. "They need to learn how to compete," he said kindly. "A lot of them are marshmallows." The winner, Finland...
...individual citizen of the totalitarian state, the story is dismally familiar: the knock on the door in the midnight hours; the squalid jail where you are held for days without charges; the brutal and degrading interrogations; the phony trial; the years in the forced-labor camp or maximum-security cell. If you are very lucky the nightmare ends with release, exile and the solemn duty to bear witness against your oppressors...
...with blockbuster Defense appropriation requests. And it is everyone's business to keep a watchful and critical eye on government performance, no matter what our "foes" may think. This is what characterizes our society as "open" from those the Reagan Administration has pledged to undermine as distastefully "closed," or totalitarian. Weinberger is certainly not the first to recognize the drawbacks of such openness on military security, but he is among the first to push for its subversion. Under this administration, the dictates of national security now require the dilution of the very political principles it was meant to defend...
...signed a declaration pledging the United States to renew efforts to encourage freedom and national independence for those countries struggling to free themselves from communist ideology and totalitarian oppression...